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Show ESPN will carry a new sports service ABC, which recently announced it would join forces with Westinghouse to form the Satellite NewsChannels in 1982, has now announced that it will become a partner with Entertainment and Sports out both Bernardo Prada (2nd round) and European welterweight wel-terweight champion Jorgen Hansen (1st) this year. Stafford, 17-2-1 with seven1 knockouts, won the welterweight wel-terweight division of a tourna- ment seen on ESPN as part oi its weekly Thursday night Top Rank boxing series. Halloween horrors The Movie Channel is scheduling a "Halloween Week of Horror" that includes the following films: Oct. 27: "Tales from the Crypt II" Five men trapped together in an underground under-ground crypt while away the hours recounting their nightmares night-mares of vampires, murder and voodoo. Programming Network to form a pay-cable sports service. ABC's current alliance with Warner-Amex has already brought us the ARTS cultural service, and a fourth ABC cable venture, with Hearst Video Services, will bring us the Daytime women's service next year. Initial plans for the sports service, projected to begin in the spring of 1982, call for a major presentation each month on a pay subscription basis. The events would be 1,1 sr f -' M tvit4ii'iHfJl presented in prime time on ESPN, the 24-hour all-sports cable network. (ESPN, a subsidiary sub-sidiary of Getty Oil, currently reaches 12 million homes.) The pay events would be optional to ESPN subscribers for a monthly charge and could also be offered through other distribution systems. Plans are also in the offing that would allow ESPN to carry certain events from ABC Sports. Details concerning concern-ing cable rights and coverage will be determined at a future date; it remains to be seen whether the new cable service will affect sports coverage on ABC's broadcast network. A scene from "Tales from the Crypt II." Boxing match Oct. 29: "Taste the Blood of Dracula" Christopher Lee as Dracula menaces the children chil-dren of four families in suburban subur-ban London. Oct. 30: "The Shining" Jack Nicholson is a writer hired with his family as a caretaker of a deserted hotel. Eerie suspense builds and Dad begins to act strangely. Oct. 31: "Dracula Today" Christopher Lee returns to menace a group of London youths who decide to liven up a dull evening by visiting a desanctified church to "call up evil spirits." Edited by Ann Ferrar Former WBA welterweight 1 champion Pipino Cuevas will ; meet ESPN-Top Rank cham- i pion Roger Stafford in a 10-round 10-round bout to be telecast live on ESPN Saturday, Nov. 7. Cuevas, ranked the No. 1 contender by the WBA and WBC before the recent Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns showdown, is 29-6 with 26 knockouts. He successfully defended his title 11 times before losing on a second-round second-round knockout to Hearns in 1980. Cuevas has vowed to regain the title, and has fought twice since, knocking |